Art & Art History
Voices: Raven Chacon [Postponed]
Still from Tremble Staves
Virtual Via Zoom
Thank you to all who registered for our first Voices lecture of the semester with Raven Chacon. Unfortunately, we will have to postpone this event indefinitely in care for our speaker.
Register here.
Raven Chacon will speak about recent works, ranging from his Manifest Destiny opera Sweet Land, to sound installations and graphic scores for musicians and non-musicians.
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, collaborator, or with Postcommodity, Chacon has exhibited or performed at Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, REDCAT, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, 18th Biennale of Sydney, and The Kennedy Center. Every year, he teaches 20 students to write string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). He is the recipient of the United States Artists fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital award in Visual Arts, The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition. He lives in Albuquerque, NM.
This program is free and closed captioning will be available. For questions or access accommodations email gallery400engagement@gmail.com